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Humanitarian networks, displacement and planned relocation
| Resumo: | This dissertation explores Brazil´s humanitarian response to the displacement of Venezuelans, focusing on the role of Operation Welcome and its Interiorisation Programme. Since 2015, more than 7 million people have left Venezuela because of the prolonged social, economic and political instability making this the fourth-largest external displacement crisis in the world. In response to the humanitarian pressures resulting from the continuous influx of Venezuelans, particularly in the states of Roraima and Amazonas, the Brazilian Federal Government launched Operation Welcome in 2018 to offer legal, logistical, and humanitarian aid. This study applies Actor Network Theory (ANT) to analyse the complex relations of human and non-human actors involved in Operation Welcome, assessing its legal, operational, and financial frameworks describing, over a five-year timeline from 2018 to 2022 (with brief considerations of 2017 and 2023 for background information), how emerged actors identified are associated, influenced and affected by each other. Closer consideration is given to the Interiorisation Programme, a planned relocation strategy that aims to relocate displaced Venezuelans across Brazil to facilitate social and economic integration. Through extensive literature review of ANT, analysis of government data, documental analysis of legal instruments and a comprehensive qualitative data analysis, this dissertation provides an in-depth look into the object studied. The research highlights the challenges faced by the Brazilian government in coordinating an unprecedented humanitarian response and indications of a new phase of learning from Operation Welcome with the development of a National Policy on Migration, Refuge and Statelessness. |
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| Autores principais: | McGeoch, Telma Montes |
| Assunto: | Actor-network theory ANT Humanitarian response Displacement Planned relocation Teoria ator-rede TAR Resposta humanitária Deslocamento Realocação planejada |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | ISCTE |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório ISCTE |
| Resumo: | This dissertation explores Brazil´s humanitarian response to the displacement of Venezuelans, focusing on the role of Operation Welcome and its Interiorisation Programme. Since 2015, more than 7 million people have left Venezuela because of the prolonged social, economic and political instability making this the fourth-largest external displacement crisis in the world. In response to the humanitarian pressures resulting from the continuous influx of Venezuelans, particularly in the states of Roraima and Amazonas, the Brazilian Federal Government launched Operation Welcome in 2018 to offer legal, logistical, and humanitarian aid. This study applies Actor Network Theory (ANT) to analyse the complex relations of human and non-human actors involved in Operation Welcome, assessing its legal, operational, and financial frameworks describing, over a five-year timeline from 2018 to 2022 (with brief considerations of 2017 and 2023 for background information), how emerged actors identified are associated, influenced and affected by each other. Closer consideration is given to the Interiorisation Programme, a planned relocation strategy that aims to relocate displaced Venezuelans across Brazil to facilitate social and economic integration. Through extensive literature review of ANT, analysis of government data, documental analysis of legal instruments and a comprehensive qualitative data analysis, this dissertation provides an in-depth look into the object studied. The research highlights the challenges faced by the Brazilian government in coordinating an unprecedented humanitarian response and indications of a new phase of learning from Operation Welcome with the development of a National Policy on Migration, Refuge and Statelessness. |
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